Paperback. Pub the Date: September. 2008 Pages: 6 in Publisher: Penguin Audio From America's # 1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr.. Kay Scarpetta novel. The book of the dead is the morgue log. A ledger in. which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta. however. it is about to take on a new meaning. Fresh from her uising battle with a psychopath in Florida. Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. not only personally and professionally but geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston. South Carolina. she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice. one in which she and her colleagues-including Pete Marino and her niece. Lucy-offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsy services to communities lacking local access to modern. competent death investigation technology. It seems like an ideal situation. until the n...